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Select your button artwork and activate its normal state by clicking the Normal layer in the State Appearance area of the Buttons panel. The artwork is now a button. Click Rollover to add a rollover state to the button. If you want the appearance of the button to change during the rollover state (that is, when the user mouses over the button), you can change it now. You can add a stroke or fill, change the size or position of the graphic, or add an effect. To change the fill color of the rollover state, make sure the button is still selected and open the Swatches panel. Make sure Fill is selected in the upper left-hand corner of the panel and click a color swatch.

A master page can house elements that you want applied to an entire document. For example, if you want to add navigation buttons to each page of your document, it makes sense to put them on a master page. To create a master page: Choose New Master from the Pages panel menu. The icon for this menu has a downward facing arrow and some lines next to it. The icon is located in the upper right corner of the Pages panel.

Select the artwork for your buttons and position it on the master page. Almost anything can be a button: you can use a graphic drawn in InDesign, a placed image, or even a piece of text. Open the Buttons panel by choosing Window > Interactive > Buttons. The buttons panel will appear as a free-floating panel which can then be docked along the right side of the InDesign window.

Path Bar, which serves as a clickable trail of breadcrumbs that keeps you spatially oriented within your file system

Among other improvements are a new Collections pane, which, expanding on the existing collections feature, gives you the ability to group your images into virtual albums. You can build Collections manually or have Bridge do it for you by selecting certain criteria like star-rating, name, keywords, and so on. These Smart Collections will grow over time as new photos with matching criteria are added to the collection automatically. They take Bridge beyond being a mere browser, by giving it some powerful library functionality.

Bridge gives you a lot of flexibility when it comes to viewing your image collection. For example, you can use the Sort menu at the top of the window to arrange your images by name, date modified, size, and so on.

The Filter panel, on the other hand, lets you weed out images by displaying those that match a certain criteria, like star-rating, rejections, and so on

After importing your images, the new Review Mode lets you see them in a giant, floating carousel. It’s a quick and easy way to view your images full-screen, mark rejections, and apply a handy star-rating system.

Bridge can also create an instant slideshow of your work, and generate PDFs or a Web gallery.

The galactic bummer is that you can’t save any of the options you’ve painstakingly entered—though it does remember the last settings you used.

With the workspace overhaul and speed increase, Bridge is a real joy to use. The ability to quickly zip through the images on your hard drive is very satisfying, especially for those who have a lot of imagery in their lives.

inability to save your settings as a preset is bone-jarring.

After all, the module feels air-lifted right out of Adobe Lightroom where the ability to save presets does exist.

For those mourning the loss of Contact Sheets and Picture Packages over in Photoshop CS4, a little customization in the Output module would have been placating

One of Expression Media's strengths is its speed. Since it doesn't render images at full size like Aperture and Lightroom do, you can zip through a catalog quickly, rating images, comparing them, adding keywords, and more

You can't create Flash-based sites as you can with Lightroom,

At $299, Expression Media's biggest limitation is its price. Lightroom, at $299, and Aperture, which is now $199, include image editing and image management capabilities. With Expression Media, if you're just getting started, you'll also still need to invest in an image editor like Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, which adds significantly to the cost of your image management system.

If you already have an editor, and want more than what Adobe Bridge provides, Expression Media is good, but we think more people will still go for a program like Lightroom or Aperture, or even iPhoto, just to get more expansive editing capabilities. However, if you prefer to maintain your own system for tracking, managing, and archiving images--and other kinds of media--Expression Media is a solid and easy-to-use program with some great file-management capabilities.